nonsense

/ˈnɒnsəns//ˈnɑnsɛns/

noun

1
Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
“After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.”
2
An untrue statement.
“He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense.”
3
That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
4
Something foolish.
5
A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
6
A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

1
To make nonsense of;
2
To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
3
To joke around, to waste time

1
Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
2
Nonsensical

1
An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.

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